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This book is a study of instructional interaction in driving lessons. Drawing on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, Gazin describes how the participants build specific types of sequences with the constraints of mobility and of the continuously ongoing driving activity.

The first full-length study in English to explore Datsueba, the old woman of hell, and her transformation from terrifying ogre to beneficent guardian over a millennium of evolution within the Japanese religious imagination.

Why have Central European countries, praised as democratization success stories, taken an illiberal turn in the past decade? This volume explores the values and attitudes responsible in the aftermath of the financial and migration crisis.

Why the ninth-century Chronographia of George and Theophanes so dominated the writing of history in Greek has long puzzled scholars. This revisionist study frames the work as an early medieval society's re-thinking of the relationship between past and present in order to navigate its imminent political crises.

This book focuses on the qualities, virtues, role and position of the emperor in the Roman world, as expressed in Greek and Latin inscriptions from Augustus to the beginning of Constantine's reign. Ce livre examine les qualités, les vertus, le rôle et la position de l'empereur dans le monde romain, tels qu'ils sont exprimés dans les inscriptions grecques et latines depuis Auguste jusqu'au début du règne de Constantin.

This volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel during the Talmudic period. Using a variety of critical methodologies, this collection offers a picture of rabbinic literature and Israelite cultures that are multi-layered and complex.

Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity.

Racontant l'histoire d'une communauté d'éboueurs installée sur les flancs du Muqattam au Caire, ce livre raconte comment cet espace urbain marginal est devenu le coeur vibrant d'une nouvelle tendance charismatique au sein de l'Eglise copte. Telling the history of a community of garbage collectors living on the slopes of the Muqattam mountain in Cairo, the book recounts how this marginal urban space became the vibrant heart of a new charismatic trend within the Coptic church.

This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at stakeholders from different fields to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations' wellbeing, this volume provides researchers' and practitioners' perspectives and applications.

The De concordia, published by Juan Luis Vives in 1529 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, is a comprehensive analysis of the social and political problems which were then afflicting Europe.

By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.

From Ego to Eco - Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political, and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism, arguing that ecocentrism is a phenomenon that can be observed in a broad variety of national and historical contexts.

This volume examines the formidable transformation of elites in China in the Republican period and how the redistribution of power, wealth and knowledge among the newly formed elites left a deep imprint on the rise of modern China up to this day.

In eleventh-century Egypt, the Christian convert Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ composed The Truthful Exposer critiquing Islam. This publication includes a study of Ibn Rajāʾ's biography, his impact on Christian approaches to Islam, and an Arabic edition with English translation of his work.

Informed by the paradigmatic shift in ritual and liturgical studies, this volume offers analyses of key ritual traditions in early Christianity. The case studies focus on the dynamic formation and transformation of rituals in the context of Greco-Roman religion, Judaism, and Islam.

At present the study of functional and ecological wood anatomy enjoys a vigorous renaissance and plays a pivotal role in plant and ecosystem biology, plant evolution, and global change research. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the successful meetings of the International Association of Wood Anatomists and the Cost-Action STReESS (Studying Tree Responses to extreme Events: a Synthesis) held in Naples in April 2013.Reprinted from IAWA Journal 34 (4), 2013.

This collection of essays assesses the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It shows the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports.

Traces of Ink explores the material and textual aspects of inks in Babylonian, Graeco-Roman, Syriac and Arabo-Islamic cultures from the interdisciplinary perspective that emerges from cooperation between philologists and natural scientists.

This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.

Divining with Achi and Tārā by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch with contributions by Solvej Nielsen offers an introduction to and two detailed case studies of Tibetan dice and prayer bead divination. Translations, interviews, and glossaries and appendices enrich an already valuable book.

Considering Class offers international, interdisciplinary perspectives on class analysis today. It explores the gap between the class forces shaping the world and the paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level. The book shows the importance of the cultural struggle.

Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.

This book examines the objects of the Danish Lot of antiquities from Bab el-Gasus that are kept at the National Museum of Denmark since 1893 aiming at reconstructing how they were crafted, designed, used and recycled during the 21st Dynasty.

The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use.